Map/Chart > The Caribbean

Published 6 May 1816 by James Whittle and R.H. Laurie, London. Inset: Road Harbour. Scale of 1 inch to about 3 miles.

Chart Information

Reference:

A506

Date

1816

Hydrographer/Surveyor/Artist:

Unknown. Published by Whittle & Laurie

Size Of Original:

w 31" x h 24"

Paper Type

Innova Smooth Cotton 315gsm

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Read the full Chart History here:

This beautiful chart is unattributed but was likely engraved by Alexander Findlay Snr (1790-1870), father of Alexander George Findlay who took over Whittle and Laurie's business in the late 1850's.

The map is full of hydrographical detail such as soundings and recommended channels through the islands. It names all of the islands and prominent points, bays, harbours and towns on the islands. The chart includes a prominent inset of Road Harbour (and town). It identifies the Danish possessions of St. Thomas and St. John's islands by colouring them yellow. All of the British owned islands are coloured pink.

The chart was, likely, published as an update to the 1775 Thomas Jeffreys chart 'The Virgin Islands from English and Danish surveys', also published by Whittle and Laurie (see Heritage Charts A505). The views of the 'Appearance of the Islands when the Mountain of Virgin Gorda bears N. N. E.' and also 'Anegada bearing S. S. W. two leagues and a half distant, with the Mountain of Virgin Gora behind it' are accredited to that earlier publication.

In addition, the chart presented here also shares some identical information with another, more recent publication, that of Robert Blachford's earlier 1813 chart (also included here in the Heritage Charts collection A520): 'Chart of the Virgin Isles, from Lockwood's Trigonometrical Survey Taken in 1811 by Order of the Commander In Chief Admiral Sir Francis Laforey'. In this chart Blachford details shipwrecks along the coast of the island of Anegada in the North East corner of the chart. The shipwrecks marked are identical to those on this Whittle and Laurie publication. It is hard to believe that this is a mere coincidence.